There have been a couple of examples of family court judges sending people to prison for deliberately ignoring their orders. Although it doesn’t happen very often, as judges prefer to find another way to deal with matters where possible, family judges can and do send...

On 20 January the Daily Mail headline demanded : ‘Family court judge must explain why pianist jailed, says campaigner’ The campaigner was ex-MP John Hemming. The piano man was, we thought, a father whose protests on social media we had seen before, and in...

This blog post is about a case which provides a useful discussion point around questions of privacy of information in family cases, and what can and can’t be disclosed about them. It illustrates how unclear things can be. The case is S v SP and CAFCASS [2016]...

This was the headline in The Brief (Times legal e-newsletter) today. It relates to this case : Middlesbrough Borough Council v M & Ors [2016] EWFC 71 (08 December 2016) Let’s be up front about this : the headline is plain rubbish. Now let’s explain...

We said we’d re-visit this February 2017 article from the Daily Mail once we had sight of Peter Jackson J’s judgment of his decision not to commit* grandmother Alison Moutiq. *send to prison ⓝⓔⓦ Bedford Borough Council v Moutiq & Ors [2017] EWFC 22 (28 February...